Revelation 2:9

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Revelation 2:9

If the Jews had recognized their Messiah, what is here described as a synagogue of Satan could have been described as the “church of the living God.”

Notes

1 Monty S. Mills, Revelations: An Exegetical Study of the Revelation to John (Dallas, TX: 3E Ministries, 1987), Rev. 2:9.

2 Richard Chenevix Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1861), 100.

3 Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 1-7 (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1992), 164-165.

4 The term συναγωγὴ [synagōgē] is used only once for a Christian place of assembly. (Jas. Jas. 2:2).

5 For more on the believing remnant, see 1K. 1K. 19:18; 2K. 2K. 19:4, 2K. 19:30; 2K. 21:14; 2K. 25:22; Isa. Isa. 1:9; Isa. 6:13; Isa. 7:3; Isa. 10:20-22; Isa. 28:5; Isa. 37:4, Isa. 37:31-32; Isa. 46:3; Isa. 59:21; Isa. 65:8; Jer. Jer. 5:10, Jer. 5:18; Jer. 23:3; Jer. 50:20; Eze. Eze. 5:3; Eze. 6:8-10; Eze. 9:8; Eze. 9:11; Eze. 11:13; Joel Joel 2:32; Zec. Zec. 11:10; Mic. Mic. 2:12; Mic. 7:18; Zec. Zec. 13:8-9; Rom. Rom. 9:6, Rom. 9:27; Rom. Rom. 11:5, Rom. 11:17, Rom. 11:25.

6 Rev. 2:9+).”—Arthur Walkington Pink, The Antichrist (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, 1999, 1923), s.v. “The Antichrist will be the Son of Satan.” See Master Imitator.

7 “This method of identifying Jews is hard-pressed to produce any exegetical support either within the Apocalypse or in the rest of the NT. Besides this, if they had called themselves Jews in this mystical sense, why would they be named as the principle source of calumny against the church? . . . It is inexplicable why a person who was not a physical descendant of Abraham would claim to be so and then turn to persecuting fellow-Christians without recanting this claim. The context demands that the offenders be of the physical descent of Abraham.”—Thomas, Revelation 1-7, 165.

8 John MacArthur, Revelation 1-11 : The MacArthur New Testament Commentary (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1999), 71.

9 Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, 102.

10 Gregory K. Beale, The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999), 13.

11 Ibid., 30-31.

12 Grant R. Osborne, Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002), 11.

13 Henry Barclay Swete, The Apocalypse of St. John (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1998, 1906), lxxxix.

14 Colin J. Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989), 67.

15 J. B. Lightfoot and J. R. Harmer, The Apostolic Fathers, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1989), 140.

16 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of Messiah, rev ed. (Tustin, CA: Ariel Ministries, 2003), 64.

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